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Pixelated cyan background with yellow square border, four blue '4B' text elements at corners, and central cross of alternating yellow-green squares.

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Pixelated cyan background with yellow square border, four blue '4B' text elements at corners, and central cross of alternating yellow-green squares.

Pixelated cyan background with yellow square border, four blue '4B' text elements at corners, and central cross of alternating yellow-green squares. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central cross
  • corner elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background fills the entire frame. A border composed of repeating yellow squares lines all edges. Four identical blue pixelated '4B' text elements are positioned at each corner: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. A vertical strip of alternating yellow and light green squares runs down the center from top to bottom. A horizontal strip of alternating yellow and light green squares spans across the middle from left to right. The central intersection point where these strips meet contains a single light green square.

Description

Pixelated cyan background with yellow square border, four blue '4B' text elements at corners, and central cross of alternating yellow-green squares.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201206060251121147194683

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background yellow border 4B text
  • pixel art cross pattern cyan blue yellow green
  • symmetrical corner text central cross
  • blue '4B' four corners

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-based

Visible Text

  • 4B

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow square border
  • blue '4B' text
  • four corner positions
  • central cross pattern
  • alternating yellow-green squares

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201206060251121147194683
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
881 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
968bc22feaf847ed
SHA-256
968bc22feaf847edd127d8fce2e2bbe5f17844a69fb8f6cb88af38f7d501b239
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102159

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cyan background with yellow square border, four blue '4B' text elements at corners, and central cross of alternating yellow-green squares.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:28 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,475 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 645

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • based (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • yellow
  • light green
  • blue

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central cross
  • corner elements

Dense Caption

Cyan background fills the entire frame. A border composed of repeating yellow squares lines all edges. Four identical blue pixelated '4B' text elements are positioned at each corner: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. A vertical strip of alternating yellow and light green squares runs down the center from top to bottom. A horizontal strip of alternating yellow and light green squares spans across the middle from left to right. The central intersection point where these strips meet contains a single light green square.

Description

Pixelated cyan background with yellow square border, four blue '4B' text elements at corners, and central cross of alternating yellow-green squares.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201206060251121147194683

Mood

  • playful
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background yellow border 4B text
  • pixel art cross pattern cyan blue yellow green
  • symmetrical corner text central cross
  • blue '4B' four corners

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: grid-based

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • based

Visible Text

  • 4B

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • yellow square border
  • blue '4B' text
  • four corner positions
  • central cross pattern
  • alternating yellow-green squares
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
201206060251121147194683
Archive entry
201206060251121147194683.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201206060251121147194683.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201206060251121147194683.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016